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User Rating:
4.8/10   109 votes
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Director:
Jonathan Kaplan
Writers:
Tom Allard (story)
Carole Raschella (writer)
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Release Date:
28 November 1983 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
Stardom is her dream. And her nightmare.
Plot:
In Los Angeles, the naive and lonely burger waitress and aspirant singer Carol Heath finds an advertisement... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
A Good Story of Trafficking of Human Beings more (6 total)

Cast

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Jennifer Jason Leigh ... Carol Heath
Thomas Byrd ... Don Potter

Mako ... Mori
Carolyn Seymour ... Madame Mori

Richard Narita ... Shiro
Soon-Tek Oh ... Hatanaka
Ann Jillian ... Marilyn
Yvonne McCord ... Susanne

Philip Charles MacKenzie ... Cavanaugh
Leslie Wing ... Lisa
John Hancock ... Sergeant Kelly
Lionel Decker ... Travis
Eda Reiss Merin ... Mrs. Powers
Isabell O'Connor ... Esther (as Isabell Monk)
Keone Young ... Akira
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Death Ride to Osaka
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Runtime:
96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:16
Company:
Hill/Mandelker Films more

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Soundtrack:
Finding My Own Way more

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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
A Good Story of Trafficking of Human Beings, 13 November 2009
7/10
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In Los Angeles, the naive and lonely burger waitress and aspirant singer Carol Heath (Jennifer Jason Leigh) finds an advertisement in the newspaper with a job opportunity in Tokyo. She has a meeting with the agents, the American Cavanaugh (Philip Charles MacKenzie) and the Japanese Shiro (Richard Narita); she signs the contract in English and Japanese and travels to Japan to work at the White Orchid night-club. She shares a hotel room with a dancer and sooner she discovers the scheme of prostitution in the club that belongs to Yakuza. Alone, without money and her passport, she is protected by Shiro, but pressed by the managers Madame Mori (Carolyn Seymour) and her husband Mori (Mako) to be receptive to client's proposals. Meanwhile her former boyfriend returns to LA and seeks her out.

"Girls of the White Orchid" is a good story of trafficking of human beings, showing the recruitment, transfer and reception of white slaves. Unfortunately, the plot becomes unrealistic in the moment that Carol refuses to prostitute, and has an awful commercial conclusion with the rescue of her boyfriend. There are better recent movies about this theme but considering that this is a TV movie of 1983, I believe it is one of the first to deal with this subject. The reviews in IMDb and the IMDb User Rating are very unfair with this film. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Escravas Brancas" ("White Slaves")

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